Mr Wilder and Me

A satisfyingly sweeping novel that still manages to push the form in new directions. As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish

A satisfyingly sweeping novel that still manages to push the form in new directions. As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish

An account of Billy Wilder's later years that sweeps beautifully from Hollywood to Greece and London while all the time reflecting on the horrors of 20th-century Europe

This elegiac novella is utterly charming, deeply poignant and ultimately uplifting . And yes, it would make a great film

An insightful and moving story about how memories can or cannot be passed down through the generations

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence . He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.